Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-04
WHAT PEOPLE CAN EAT.
Beasts, Birds and Insects which Become
Food IN some Countries.

! Food In some Countries.
New York Sun.
! IAN EsquimauX will eat twenty pounds
OF meat per diem, lubricsting the msss
! with as much oil as he can swallow; yet
& Tongouse will go twenty pounds bet
ter, for he can get sway with forty
pounds of reindeer meat in the same
! space CT time. Both Of them blush fC-
| their feeble powers when they see three
] YdkUtes devour > whole reindeer st g
sitting, and rise apparently none the
worse for the feed"
| The speaker was 8 man who had tray
| eled in almost every country in the
world, and had made Study of the Veo-
/ pie ne came across, particularly among
savage and Semi-Savage nations. He
continued:
"Ine greatest luxury 3 Greenlsnder
can enjoy is hali putrid whales tail, with
relish OF the gum of the proper kind
from the same animal POrpoise meat
was once favored dish with the old
English nobility, at least so runs the
story, which declares the proper sauce to
have been compounded of sugar, vinegar
snd bread crumbs. The trapper IN the
far North loves beaver tsil and bears
paw, and quite right he is.
"hangarOO tail is g dish an Australian
finds much flavor In. II is delicious
The natives highly esteem the silent but
wild diugO, neither do they turn up their
noses at rats.
"COmlDg TO South America, the Otto
macs are the oldest people They sub
sist entirely on 8 fat and ferrugInous kind
of clay, each man eating daily pound
or mere. The Indians OF the Amazon eat
kind Of loan, pTefeTring it to other and
decidedly better food. I have seen them
do it, The PeruyianS are also clay eaters,
their mess being mixture of tale and
miCs-rather tough food even for Peru.
Other nations are earth eaters-.he in
habltantS Of New Gutnes, some Of the
BOlivisns, the negroes of Jamaica, snG
the natives OF New Caledonia, as well IS
many people who dwell in Siam, Siberia
and KamsChatka. The Ottomacs, how
ever, are the only ones VINO subsist on
clay when other food is obtaIua5Ie.
''In AfriCs l found diet as various ss
the people, and such trites as blue mole
mice, fats Sleeps tails, steWed puppies,
puma, baked elephants trunk and feet,
ostrich eggs, ants stewed in butter, cater
pillars, roasted spiders, snsils eight
inches long, and odd articles not gener-
ally regarded as food ere consumed
when the natives Of the West Indies
are regarded from dietetiC standpoint,
oaked snakes glide into the menu aiong
with palm worms 8 finger long, fried in
their own fat; yet these COIOred gour-
msnds can rot abide rabbit stew Rats
are there also considered nice side dish,
with occasional relishes Of geneca eggs
and palm tree snOut beetles. Sounds
nasty, doesn't it?
GIN those AsIatiC countries where I
have been the palate can be disguised OF
tiCkled with no end OF curious dishes We
know how ingenious the Chinese are in
their cuisine, finding delight In half
Matched eggs, sharks fins AM maws,
fowls and ducks tongues. dogs hind
Quarters, rat soup, soup made from the
nests of the HirundO esCUIenIC, and, as
an appetizer, the chrysaIis Of the silk
worm, after the silk has been wound
from it.
In Siam the dried sinews of various
animals form a dish much liked fouud
it very good. Alligators' eggs are eaten
il many eastern countries, and nastier
dish it would be hard to imagine. Ants
enter largely into Oriental bills
of fare, and ID CeyIOn the busy
bee is masticated by the very men who
have profted by the honey it has made
In the Antilles lizard very often is the
piece de resistance st q native feast, vet
they will not touch the tOOthsOme Young
alligator. The m8natee's tail is staple
dish in Honduras. This is not bsd eat
ing. At the Falkland Islands gourmet
Can enjoy a new sensation by eating 8 sea
lions tongue.
"The Javanese are fond Of flying fox.
The desert Of Chinese middle classes con
sists OF melon pips, the scarlet ard vel
low varieties being grown solely for their
seed.
"Out in Central America the stately
,urasson and the sober guam, both large
birds, are diligently hunted as table del
Cacies, yet the first named biped must
not be eaten by the hunters dog, for
1 will assuredly poison it. To these
nay be added the gibnet, or ,tepes-
luinta, the peeCary and the Indian rab-
Dit; all acceptable additions to that lar
Ter which is further enriched by balloons
md monkeys. The last named, however,
when roasted, look like small babies-Yet
hey taste deliCiously.
"HippOphagy has not made many con-
yerts, although it has g large number Of
advocates. They perhaps do not practice
what they preach, and only drive horses
into other peoples tables, without in
tulging in equine repasts at their own
n Madgeburg, some years sgo, friend
If mine saw q fosl of the value of 500
,ut on as the central dish at marriage
east, the cost being more esteemed than
he meat.